Posts by fredwu

I returned to Firefox after Firefox 4 (beta/RC and now official) was released.

Chrome was good, but it was too restrictive – for instance, an addon dev has no control whatsoever to the tabs, so no tabs scrolling until the Chrome team decides to add it. :/

I will be lurking around!

Fred

I’d rather code ‘right’ than code fast.

Mine: http://fredwu.me/

Mostly Ruby/Rails and PHP tips and rants, with occasionally web design / UI / UX topics.

Accidental assignment within if statement:

This happens all to often, I just found one today in some code I’m fixing.

The error looks like this:

if($_REQUEST['action'] = 'delete'){  // run the delete code...

Of course, delete will run every time. This should be:

if($_REQUEST['action'] == 'delete'){  // run the delete code..

An even better practice to get into is swapping the variables around:

if('delete' == $_REQUEST['action']){  // run the delete code..

This way if you do accidentally use = instead of == you will get a PHP error.
It’s a hard practice to get into, but well worth it in the long run.

Destructive actions should not be mapped onto GET requests, so instead of using $_REQUEST, one should always stick to using $_POST.

I should clarify that my opinion was towards the GPL license itself, not Wordpress or Matt.

Here’s my personal opinion: http://fuckgpl.com/

Disclaimer: I work for Envato, so that’s just my personal opinion, it doesn’t represent Envato’s view in any way.

The requirement doesn’t sound ‘enterprisy’ at all. Why don’t you upload the videos to blip.tv?

I didn’t read all the posts in this thread, but if you haven’t seen this, you should:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hqFTx8rLsg

And hopefully no PHP 4 scripts!